I teach you the Overman. Man is something that shall be overcome. What have you done to overcome him? ... The time has come for man to set himself a goal. The time has come to plant the seed to his highest hope.

To get into just those situations where sham virtues will not suffice, but rather where, as with the ropedancer on his rope, one either falls or stands--or gets down.

Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?

And I offer you this parable: Not a few who sought to cast out their devil entered into the swine themselves.

A man who whinnies with noisy laughter, surpasses all the animals in vulgarity.

Democracy represents the disbelief in all great men and in all elite societies: everybody is everybody's equal.

Speaking of Georges Bizet: His music has the tang of sunny climates, their bracing air, their clearness. It voices a sensibility hitherto unknown to us.